/sci/ - Science & Math

house democrats have opened a formal investigation into spacex

>Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, and Garcia, the top Democrat on the national security subcommittee, said this alleged widespread use of the Starlink systems [by Russia] raises “additional questions about the efficacy of your company’s safeguards and compliance with U.S. sanctions and export controls.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/07/starlink-musk-spacex-russia/

>>16061833
This is literally a self-made problem by the Democrats because Biden would not cooperate with Musk over ideological reasons and as a result Ukraine is using 50K civilian terminals sourced and funded by 3rd party donors.

the iss is proof that spin gravity can work

How does this make you feel?
Be honest.
>>>/wsg/5472878

>>16061833
>russians steal antennas from ukrainians
>YOU SOLD IT TO RUSSIANS!!!!

>>16061833
Why is Democrat party so fucking retarded? It's like the only thing they can do is to sabotage the country. Like they're full of foreign puppets.

>>16061833
>Civilian terminals available globally to everyone
>Some of everyone sells them to Russians
>Congress orders the geofence to be open in places where SpaceX doesn't want it to be open
>Russia takes advantage of it
>OMG SPACEX MUST BE INVESTIGATED
I hate our politicians so much it's unreal.

>>16061840
Starship's 9m diameter could have 0.18g if spun at 6rpm

>>16061755
So in what should i put my money instead? Sat stocks? Because their business will boom when the starship becomes operational?

>>16061851
Because they're both retarded AND evil.
The sabotage is intentional, and the only reason we're still standing is because they're stupid as fuck.

>>16061833
Kill democrats

No one actually expects this thing to survive reentry, right?

>>16061862
breaking United States law
>>16061858
>>16061856
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>>16061851
>>16061849
>>16061839
>>16061833
not /sci/sfg

>>16061864
Was that from pressurization?

>>16061868
Venting, yeah

>>16061866
Shut up and suck down the Democrat's shame.

>>16061866
*capitally punish all democrats

1 week?

photos from iss

>>16061876
nice flame trench and water sound suppression system

>>16061879
>all those pics from israel
????????????

>>16061879
does nasa have a site or something with this map where you can zoom in?

>>16061876
Yes, 0.5 fortnight

>>16061833
Good. Beat some responsibility into that clueless vatnik sympathizer.
Starlink could be a huge military asset to US.
Too bad DoD is just as slow on the uptake as oldspace.

IFT-3 JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE

>>16061909
https://natronics.github.io/ISS-photo-locations/

OH NO NO NO Spx fags!! Youve been keeping this really quiet dont you? Even if IFT3 is a complete success, starship wont even make it to orbit LOL, LMAO EVEN!!. So were not gonna see a proper reentry either. People knew N1 was a complete failure after 4 launches, how many flights does starship need to make /sfg/ realize this mutand rocket is big fraud? Id say after IFT4 starbase will be dismantled

>>16061918
DoD higher ups want their fingerprints on the initiative. It's the old problem of "I can't take credit for it, so I must undermine it" in business.

>>16061833
I hope you guys this is a Catch-22 situation. They are trying to get SpaceX to admit that they can shut off terminals in the region so that they can attribute those boat attacks that failed on SpaceX's meddling, and say that they have too much power. Likewise if they maintain that they didn't do that and can't turn off the terminals then Starlink can be viewed as a potential danger to the homeland because SpaceX can't turn off the terminals.

>>16061943

>>16061959
>so that they can attribute those boat attacks that failed on SpaceX's meddling

Low information anon is low information, it is already well known that Starlink was never active over Crimea.

>>16061985
Elon still went on record saying that they didn't turn off the receivers. Do you think that it won't come up? The entire inquiry is about security, and it boils down to whether or not they can control/shut down the receivers. If they can, then SpaceX has too much power. If they can't, then SpaceX's product is too dangerous.

>>16061833
Fuck Ratskin, that guy does only bad shit ever.

>>16061992
>Elon still went on record saying that they didn't turn off the receivers.
>off

My low info friend I have some bad news for you.

>>16062029
My mistake, he did say they turned off the service: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine.html

Lmao, welp, this is going to be fun to watch.

>>16061846
Patriotic, because America is awesome and even our shittiest rocket mogs anything else made by anyone else

Happy, because-yes-the AJ-10s and SSMEs need to be in a museum. But at the same time, there’s a lot of them—and most of them would honestly just be collecting dust and rust in the warehouse section of a museum, or outdoor rocket garden (like at JSC). At least they’re being used one more time and given a warrior funeral by fire

But also blackpilled, for more than obvious reasons. SLS is soaking up a LOT of resources, money, and manpower just to please congress. It ultimately needs to be canned. But lol it’s better than even the heaviest-lifting rocket Russia or China or India or Japan or France or Italy (etc.) could possibly imagine, so, USA all the way baby

Pic unrelated, I only have boring SLS photos on my ph*ne

>>16061848
>>16061846
Kino
I really hope we get some shots like these from HLS that don't get cucked by FOIA restrictions

>>16062031
>he did say they turned off the service

Anon you just keep digging your hole deeper.

>>16061823
Hi /sci/ and /sfg/! I’m just here to tell you: dropkick nigger monkeys and dumbocrats into the sun

>>16061921
No, it really didn't
>>16062069
Based?

>>16062059
>it’s better than even the heaviest-lifting rocket Russia or China or India or Japan or France or Italy (etc.) could possibly imagine
Given that SLS and Long March-10 both have the same job, punt a capsule to TLI, I'd say that the LM-10 is clearly superior design. Although Russia's Yenisei concept won't ever leave the sketchup phase it's got a lot of the same advantages. India and Japan don't really have any current ambitions that would require a SHLV and saying SLS is better that Europe's efforts isn't setting a very ambitious bar.

>>16062082
I am unironically about to defend SLS here, whew. One has flown, and one is 10 years away and will be outdated by the time it makes its maiden flight.
Total USA cultural victory

>>16062088
SLS could have been built in 1980

>>16062091
LM10 could have been built 2 years ago

what are the chances of spacex succeeding with all their objectives for IFT-3? i feel like its low because they have too many significant milestones that they're trying to test.

>>16062097
50/50

>>16062097
There is no way that whatever they are going to try and do with fuel transfer works.

>>16062097
Space is for children, moron. Like dinosaurs.

Grow the fuck up.

>>16062097
>i feel like its low because they have too many significant milestones that they're trying to test.

They are trying a sub orbital flight bro, weve been doing since the 40s how is that so "significant"? And yes starshit is going to blow up after hot stage

I hadn't looked into it in ages, but apparently the first Deep Space Gateway module is going into orbit in November 2025, which now seems... really soon?

They're actually doing the fucking thing?

Also moderate lels at it's going to be launched using Falcon Heavy even though it allegedly will exist to facilitate Orion/SLS missions

>>16062140
i havent seen any hardware updates about in it forever

>>16062144
I was planning on replying with "Well, twenty months isn't that soon," but I couldn't find a single picture of any hardware that wasn't also labeled as a testing mockup. It'd be disappointing if it slips because I think it's still supposed to be the first payload using the extended fairing.

>>16062148
I thought we saw a door 10 months ago

>>16062140
>Also moderate lels at it's going to be launched using Falcon Heavy even though it allegedly will exist to facilitate Orion/SLS missions
That's because Gateway is an interplanetary cruiser cleverly disguised as a space station. Falcon Heavy deposits Gateway in LEO. It then spends like 15km/s delta-V inching its way up to NRHO on electric propulsion. Starship ("""Dragon XL""") then tops it off with more Xenon or whatever propellant.

>>16062140
so smol so cozy

>>16062148
not that module but here's the PPE module that's going up at the same time

>>16062188
kek is that dude covered in gang tats

>>16062140
Where do you shit

>>16062191
>yo I work on space shit holmes

>>16062188
How many engines is that thing going to run?

>>16062192
in the Orion

>>16062192
designated shitting capsule

>>16061985
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>>16062065
Jesus this dude is a faggot you need to go back

>>16062097
They'll get everything except for a Raptor relight and reentry. 50% chance of RUDing during relight and 50% chance of RUD during reentry because their tile situation is not great.

Biden said nothing about Artemis in his State of the Union

>>16062242
Artemis II isn't even happening this year, all these fucking delays it all still feels so far away, far enough away that its of no use to mention even sadly

>>16062140
>>16062144
>>16062148
>>16062188
All about gateway is very odd, we dont see updates, NASA doesnt post anything about it. The last thing Ive seen it was that the first module will be ready in nov 2024, but now it seems to be ready in nov 2026, but no one believes it. Even i dont get how theyre goint to relate gateway with the rest of Artemis missions, but NASA almost didnt speak about it

>>16062242
He doesn't know anything about it, and will probably be dead before the first manned landing.

>>16062248
>manned
you mean crewed, chud

>>16062249
I most definitely do not

>>16062247
which sounds really bad because gateway is the way that nasa keeps artemis alive: because they bring together a large international coalition so congress doesn't axe the program's budget

>>16062251
men aren't gonna be in the first landing chud, do your research

>>16062254
Gay shitpost

>>16062254
Straight effortpost

>>16062254
A spacecraft full of women is still manned.

>>16062265
*crewed

>>16062266
I like my word more.

>>16062254
bisexual banalpost

>>16062253
A permanent lunar outpost staffed by a multi-national crew would do that a lot better, and building out something like that is the overall goal of Artemis over the longer term. Gateway was only really needed because SLS is too weak to get Orion to a proper lunar orbit and even then only early on when people were talking about building up landers there over multiple launches.

>>16062265
womanned

>>16062271
a lunar outpost would be much riskier, more prone to delays and mission failures. which inhibits its main functionality as an anchor for money

>>16062272
Manned isn't gendered, silly.

>>16062254
Tranny pedopost

>>16061833
Raskin is one of the biggest snakes in congress

>>16062249
>>16062251
>>16062253
>>16062254
Not just women, but also a black dude, so I call it Nignned

>>16062254
True post and only incelulite chuddians disagree

https://www.youtube.com/live/FEMeCxNhH-g
sexy af girl on Off Nom today

Men, women, he-she's, it doesn't matter if they're EARTHERS

>>16062459
but she's hot

https://x.com/LeahCheshier
This slut is sucking down cum by bucketloads and you're doing what?

>>16061864
if the aluminum shuttle can do it this big flying tank can do it by a long shot

>>16062097
100%. They will accomplish all of the set tasks

Buy boosters slated to be scrapped. Repurpose them as water towers.

>Testing has met or exceeded expectations:
>• Device Connection: Testing has not been limited to a single device, model, or operating
>system. Instead, SpaceX has successfully attached several unmodified models of Samsung
>Galaxy, Apple iPhone, and Google Pixel smartphones to the eNodeB on the SpaceX
>satellites. These devices have properly communicated for the duration of the satellite pass
>and did not experience harmful interference from adjacent-band devices.
>• Link Budget: SpaceX conducted tests up to its maximum authorized PFD of -80
>dBW/m 2 /MHz. Measured downlink and uplink link budgets fell within 1-2 dB of SpaceX’s
>modeled link budget, including realistic path losses, polarization losses, atmospheric
>losses, foliage losses, and human factors losses. This has enabled devices to communicate
>with the satellites through tree cover and indoors (although the direct-to-cell service is
>designed for outdoor use), and down to an elevation angle of 25 degrees. During the tests,
>SpaceX was able to demonstrate a peak download speed of over 17 Mbps.
>/s/ Jameson Dempsey

They even report indoors cellphone to satellite connections. Though they don't mention what the typical speed is in various scenarios. Also I've not seen /s/ used before.

>>16062569
s is common for signing in digital documents.

Welp, I do suppose that PLBs are fucking dead in the water. Short Garmin stock

>Michelle Dopak, a production coordinator for SpaceX, filed a lawsuit against SpaceX in Los Angeles County Superior Court. She is alleging her supervisor pressured her into a sexual relationship, got her pregnant, and offered her $100,000 to have an abortion. She also alleges that after she declined to accept the money, SpaceX colluded against her and allowed the supervisor to take $3.7 million in stock out of his name so he didn’t have to pay child support. Lastly she alleged SpaceX leadership paid her less than men with comparable jobs, ignored complaints of bias against women, and was trying to get Dopak to quit by giving her more work and pressuring her to return to work early after taking a medical leave. Dopak is seeking an unspecified amount of damages. SpaceX has not commented.

How about Musk helps the Rebels to defeat Voldemort instead of trying and failing to act as "le wholesome centrist"???

>Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from San Francisco, crushing cars on the ground
https://vxtwitter.com/BNONews/status/1765855107185275265

I'm sure Starliner is gonna be fine...

>>16062625
What the fuck happened to this company. Boeing used to be great.

>>16062651
modern boeing is just the worst bits of McDonald Douglas

>>16062651
https://youtu.be/vqgTcb8DqfY

>>16062625
Probably a maintenance fuck up

>>16062625
to be fair, Boeing isn't doing the maintenance

>>16062651
>>16062652
>>16062655
>>16062625
Losing a wheel is an airline/maintenance fuck up. Nothing to do with Boeing.

How to remember stuff that I read in books? I remember pretty much nothing from Liftoff aside from Muller driving while intoxicated and workers protesting on Omelek.

>>16062668
beats me
I only remember stuff I've read 20 years ago

>>16062668
Make notes while reading and read them later, there's no magic trick.

>>16062569
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-cellular-starlink-system-works-on-iphone-pixel-galaxy-devices

>>16062609
seems like an insane woman

53 payloads taken from Astra
how did they think it was ever going to work? lmao

https://twitter.com/Harry__Stranger/status/1765845111970447787
>A new image from Blue Origin of BE-4 on the stand last month: https://blueorigin.com/news/gallery
>"Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine readies for hotfire at Marshall Spaceflight Center Test Stand 4670 (February 1, 2024)."

China's Mars sample return (Tianwen-3) has been approved by the State Council.
Two LM5 launches of orbiter/earth-return capsule &lander/ascent-vehicle which will rendezvous in Mars orbit.

>>16062723
when?

>>16062069
simply unfeasible, best I can do is drop rocks on them

>>16062723
Pretty spicy landing.

>>16062728
>will have completed MSR by 2030
so the launches will be in 2027

>>16062723
Imagine building these rube goldberg machines when you can just grab a rock from your backyard! LOL!!

>>16062668
you can effortlessly achieve perfect recall of everything you read by not reading anything

>>16062749
low cost stellar ejecta sample return mission

>>16062625
I feel sorry for those 2 astronauts that are suppose to be testing starliner

>>16062723
>First moon landing this century
>First sample return from another planet in history

Why does China keep mogging NASA so bad?

>>16062723
This bit seems dumb, but overall that's a 1000 times better than Nasa's plan.

>>16062785
They don’t deserve to die on boeings shitcapsule, but at the same time it would be pretty funny for boing to get such a huge nail in their coffin right now.

>>16062792
it might have a negative effect on manned spaceflight in general, even though it shouldn't
but the public is retarded

>>16061853
I think the coriolis forces would be too much. Starship is already designed to be suspended by a crane, so just tether 2 together and spin them up.

>>16062093
The chinese are too busy copying the wests homework to actually get anything off paper.

As soon as they stole enough info to start cloning F9, SpaceX moved on to starship, and now they are back at square one. God bless ITAR

>>16062813
>starship
>three nacelles
??

>>16062818
then just spin it slower
having 0.1 or 0.05g would still be better than nothing

>>16062826
Yeah I also regret SpaceX being dumping a proper name for the most generic unimaginative shit instead
Bring back BFR

>>16062170
it was gonna launch on SLS, but then the contractor they paid half a billion $$$ to build the tower for block 2 took the money and decided they didn't really feel like building it.

>>16062836
they are installing the FTS?

>>16062840
yep

>>16061853
After that, they just need to wear a 400lb (earth) tungsten vest at all times to put about 80lb of stress on their joints.

https://twitter.com/SERobinsonJr/status/1765913400003919963
> SpaceX employees are getting rebar souvenirs of the launchpad that was destroyed during the Starship IFT-1 from 4.20.2023. Only 3,500 were made. This one was given to Ruben Stewart. Cool!!!

>>16062840

6 more days

>>16062855
They are giving away their trash?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/rocket-report-starbase-will-expand-into-state-park-another-japanese-rocket/

Small Rockets
>Astra's founders take the company private.
>Virgin Galactic is retiring its only operational spaceship
>A new Japanese rocket will launch this weekend.
>UK spaceport project to get 10 million pounds from government.

Medium Rockets
>Another crew heads for the ISS.
>Three launches in 20 hours.
>Russia has nothing to launch on its new flagship rocket.
>Chinese reusable rockets are on the horizon.

Heavy Rockets
>A date at Starbase.
>SpaceX's land deal in Texas
>New Glenn testing underway in Florida.

https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-aims-to-launch-first-lunar-lander-in-2025/

>>16062879
They should try launching their rocket in 2024 first

>>16062881
but ook at all the mockups

>>16062873
Yeah, that's what souvenirs are. Commemorative trash.

>>16062723
Did they publish a budget? How much less than NASA MSR do you think it'll cost?

>>16062877
>Virgin Galactic is retiring its only operational spaceship
There's so much wrong with that sentence.
>>16062907
It's seems simpler and smaller so I have to imagine it would be a lot cheaper.

Workers are installing FTS

>>16062925
Steely Eyed Demolition Men.

>>16062925
Iron-willed Destruction Experts

>>16062925
metal boom guys

>>16062881
>They should try launching their rocket in 2024 first
No need any more, BO is buying out ULA. Lunar landers will be launched on Vulcan.

>>16062925
>ywn carry big boom box across the wastes to the tower of steel

>>16062938
Vulcan is too small of a rocket to launch Blue's HLS.

>>16062738
I don't think people appreciate how unga-bunga the EDL of the mission is. It's direct, so they aren't going to make Mars orbit for precise targeting. The atmosphere is not going to slow it down at all, so the whole mission depends on a propulsive landing from almost interplanetary velocity. I expect they will try to enter as shallow as possible to aerobrake all the way in, but it's going to be wild.

>>16062723
Good job China. Fuck USA in a ASS

>>16062723
other than the rover isn't this the exact same architecture as MSR? and I don't really consider the rover to be the sketchy part of MSR, especially since it's redundant

>>16062786
China isnt a jobs program. NASA is

>>16062925
Starship EOD

>>16062879
How do they keep winning?? OMG

>>16062958
basically the same but smaller and won't cost an arm and a leg and mired in delays

TODD

>>16062972
jay gatsby + tom buchanan

found this on twitter.com. LOL

>>16062873
>Giving

$1000 comes out of their benefits.

>>16062987
>elon tweets something stupid
The free space should be in the middle of a bingo card.

>>16062998
!

>>16062987
this is gay and not funny

>>16062998
Alarming

>>16062881
How are the muskettes going to react when IFT-9 continues to "RUD" while NG and its Blue Moon lands over and over again?

>>16063064
dilate LMAOOO

>>16062943
don't let your dreams stay dreams

>>16063091
dibs on brown sleeves girl

>>16063091
>small lift
it never even began for these ppl

>>16063105
be gentler on them, europeans can't into spaceflight

>>16063091
nice RCS motor, what are they putting it on?

>>16063121
No. Europe needs to learn.

>>16062818
How long of a tehter would you want? I'd say probably 200m to be comfortable. But then in-flight maneuvers get complicated. You have to stop everything, unhitch, and make two separate burns, then rendezvous, re-thether, and spin back up.

>>16063150
>have no gravity for few hours in earth orbit
>burn for mars
>rendezvous in mars transfer orbit
>combine, spin up
>have gravity for months long transfer
>split up, make circularization burns separately
>have no gravity for last day or so in orbit of mars

>>16063091
had to be done.

>>16063158
>rolling on a board with 2.3 posts/min

Boingbros...

>>16063158
pls qt. I need this!

>>16063180
oof.

https://twitter.com/nvslive/status/1766029388934775157
>The unique live broadcast of the Kairos rocket launch by NVS, scheduled for March 9th, was unable to test the special tripod due to strong winds, so a decision on whether or not to proceed with the live broadcast will be made just before the launch date, March 9th. . If shooting conditions are not met, live streaming may be canceled without notice. The post-launch press conference will be streamed.

NVS has covered past H-2 launches from Tanagashima using a dude holding a camcorder. Now we're getting tripods canceled due to high winds? Lame.

Why is boeing building the SLS core stage? I thought they had to spin off all their rocket manufacturing to ULA

>>16062998
looking into this

>>16063158

oh yeah, when I toss a couple car batteries in the ocean I get a $15,000 fine, but when NASA tosses 5800 pounds of them into the ocean, it's a historic occasion

the hypocrisy of this government

>>16063179
short Boeing GEEEEG

>>16063158
Is this a publicly traded company? I want to short their stock.

>>16063218
Looks like Canada's fault. Don't care that it was planned and everyone was onboard with the plan, still Canada's fault.

>>16063179
meh all boeing does is the airframe
the important parts are Pratt and GE's engines

>>16063156
I guess it would depend on how accurate of a burn tandem starships can execute. It's my understanding that most interplanetary missions require some minor adjustments during transfer. Trival for one ship with 6 axis RCS, but 2 with a flexible tether is not

>>16063192
All of their /current/ rocket manufacturing at the time. Boeing still leases much of NASA's rocket manufacturing infrastructure (i.e. Michoud) and has basically continued on to newer and even more expensive things despite having been forced to offload their other production lines to ULA. If you're wondering "so why does ULA exist then?" So does ULA.

>>16063222
>publicly traded
No.
Also their CEO is the Chad with cone hair whereas (You) are the virgin.

>>16063247
it is HIM

>>16062972
mogged

>>16063064
who cares, as long as it keeps getting closer to the target
I wouldn't be surprised if they are still doing water landings at IFT-9 and in principle still rudding and not reusing the boosters or ships

>>16061852
tangentially related fuck every politician that wants to restrict any form of speech.

best way to cope with being at the local minimum?

>>16063091
I wish to congratulate them whomyn's day.

>>16063300
make mistakes, coward
How do you think people climb that hill? By being wrong over and over again until they're right

when can we finally have sex in space ?

>>16063300
get dumber and more confident

>>16063318
No, I am the pope.

Which I have split into a highly proficient I intelligence corporation.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1766180391553990660

>>16063327

>>16063328
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/StarlinkLatency.pdf

>>16063319
We are men, we don't like big terrorist attacks of Rubillion nuclear arrays in some district of space. Leave that for the movies. We turn and talk to each other and are more relaxed than actors. Men.

>>16063222
trips of truth

>>16063342
fag of fags

>>16063327
We are talking about inter-satellite-to-ground round trips between only a handful of the shell's satellites plus handoffs as they move in and out of the cells, so while impressive it isn't really "global latency".

It's still pretty cool though, because they're growing their network management expertise. That paper mentions using fq_codel on the customer routers, which is the current hot new thing in WiFi

In networking "shortest path possible" is a pretty specific term, which makes me wonder if they're using actual physical distance in their routing algorithms. The multiplexing per user on the front end is something cell carriers have deep expertise on. I would not be surprised if part of the partnership with T-Mobile involves getting help designing a solution for this.

>>16063327
Isn't that one of the big points of starlink is that it can have lower latency over long distances than fiber?

>>16063355
no, that is a theoretical possibility though, I don't think its something that is true right now

>This is just a selection of some of the most impactful changes we have made. Since the beginning of the
year, teams have deployed and tested 193 different satellite software builds, 75 gateway software
builds, 222 Starlink software builds, and 57 WiFi software builds

i think in rememberance of where rocket design came from, elon musk should shoot a starship into big ben

>>16063241
lol

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1766185448823574792

>>16063376
America's soft power in Africa, basically.

Max Twat

>>16063381
that's until china comes in and forces them to use their subpar internet instead

>>16063388
It will be a nice litmus test
organisations/groups there that use starlink are the pro-west ones

>>16063383
go back

>>16063395
Cope & seethe

>>16063393
Oddly, Nigeria is not on the list

>>16063397
dial8

>>16063331
>This is just a selection of some of the most impactful changes we have made.
>Doesn't really list any specific changes
kek
Still neat, and that graph does show pretty decent improvement.

>>16063445
Overprotective. One of your 'traits'

Die fag. I'm being serious. Kys now, or let the ward kill you with their meds. It's up to you

>16063447
is this barkun?

>>16063456
Yeah you can see that retarded bots schizoposts in the thread before too. Just put 'spam bot' when reporting

Why did no one in /sfg/ post the recovered footage of the moon landing?????
https://youtu.be/G0bhYZ9Vljg

>>16062987
stop reposting space twitter chud

>>16063318
>we

>>16063493
Kek true he wngts

>>16062222
they will relight and it will result in rud

>>16063510
and even if it works perfectly from here on out

>>16063520
And then they refuel in orbit. Or are we just pretending that nothing on Starship works until it does.

>>16062222
>RUD during relight
is that the reason why the trajectory is almost suborbital so there wont be any debris left in orbit in case it happens ?
>RUD during reentry
almost certainly, I assume

>>16063544
based on his company's work on ACES (much smaller) he knows how hard + how long it will take

>>16063555
stop with these shit offtopic pictures nge is not spaceflight and its dog shit anyways

>>16063490
Neat, but isn't that footage already available?

>>16063556
I have my doubts. Besides not working with the peculiar handling difficulties of liquid hydrogen, the inherent difficulty (or lack thereof) is largely unknown until you A: simulate the hell out of it, or B: just do it. While NASA was preparing to do a simulation study of retro-propulsive reentry, SpaceX just did it, and found that it was actually pretty easy.

>>16063318
i wud fuk u so god it tear u a Part

>>16063500
>he

>>16063578
i dont use troon pronouns. hwnbaw

>Boeing 737 Max 8 ran off Texas runway
Every single thing that happens to Boeing plane gets reported now.

>>16063561
Only parts of it not a live recording

>>16063609
Pretty common tactic if a short seller has a friend in the media

>>16063631
Can't wait for the Clear restream to become the only available historical record of Starship's first Martian landing after the X servers go down in the Hack of 2036.

>>16063555
The flight path is not quite orbital because if they cannot do a controlled deorbit burn for whatever reason they don't want to have a CZ-5C scenario but with a substantially larger object designed to survive reentry.

>>16063247
>(You) are the virgin.
But I got trips so now I have access to all that space snatch.
>>16063318
There's already been a married astronaut couple in space and despite what NASA claims, there's no way they didn't inaugurate the 300 mile high club.
>>16063357
>>16063355
Think it only works once they start using interlinks between satellites.

>>16063674
I wonder how Starship behaves ballistically. Does it neutrally settle into one orientation? Would be a design flaw if it starts tumbling when you lose flap control (see Shuttle).

>>16063179
>Boing
Not going.

>>16063700
It's not passively stable.
You can go ride on a Soyuz if you got a problem with that.

>>16063717
This is why spaceplanes (including Starship) will never become mainstream

>>16063730
this kills the muskrat

>>16063717
The hyper complex engines need to ignite in order for it to land.
That is way more of a liability than four flaps working.
And propulsive landing is a requirement for moon and mars.

>>16063318
You just need a large enough craft and the means to rotate it.

>>16062059
>our shittiest rocket

>performs an entire moonflight flawlessly on its first flight
Sour grapes make for a bitter whine.

>>16063158
44 I guess
how did they manage to get ZERO asian girls?

>>16063771
Retard

>>16063771
Yes that was my point dipshit

>>16063777
Asian parents push for medicine and law, not science and engineering

>>16063780
>My money now
N faggot you R stoobid

>>16063778
Get madder and see if it helps Starship hit escape velocity while dead empty.

>>16063779
"Shitty" rockets don't complete the mission on the first launch, bra. Must get lonely waiting in Hawaii for a space vehicle that never arrives.

>>16063400
imagine joining the army and getting sent to black Africa

>>16063771
SLS stans to not get hyper defensive and assume your rocket waifu is shitty

>>16063786
>“Shitty" rockets don't complete… Hawaii for a space vehicle that never arrives.
I never once brought up Hawaii, or any rocket flying to there. You’re projecting!

cool

>>16063786
>"even our shittiest rocket"
>immediately thinks of SLS

>>16063771
The Space Shuttle carried humans successfully on its first flight and flew hundreds of missions.
Yet it was an objectively shitty rocket.

>>16063771
>>16063786
>Starship derangement syndrome

>>16063556
I'm sure they worked really hard on the powerpoints, yes.

>>16062828
BFR was a dumbshit name
>Peeheehee guys the F stands for Fucking
It is right to reclaim the word "starship" for practical use, away from worthless 20th century scifi

>>16062059
Has there ever been a more cursed rocket than that?

>>16063064
Kek it was really funny when the usual suspects on twitter were performing outrage about RUD as if Elon invented it

>>16063818
Should have been Big Heckin Rocketarino!

Japan will debut the KAIROS private small launcher in a couple hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=samOr1VqZwY

>>16063064
How angry will you be when New Glenn has not be reused before flight nine of Starship?

>>16063355
The big point is that you can use Starlink anywhere in the world, in the sea, on air, on land, in rurals, in cities, etc.

Latency reduction is theoretical when they route all traffic through optimal (latency) routing. But realistically, even if they did have all the routing take place with lasers, it will use a more bandwidth optimal routing. Ideally bandwidth/latency optimal routing should be the same, but you never know.

>no launch license

>>16063835
wen raunch

>>16062826
>>16062813
I guess he's watching "All Good Things..."

>>16063818
>It is right to reclaim the word "starship" for practical use
It's not flying to any "star". It's barely flying to space.

>>16063904
What does the third one do, warp space more?

>>16063906
We'll see

>>16063064

>>16063909
In the bizzaro future timeline where Riker is the captain it makes the ship go to warp 13. Also the ship can cloak

If someone launched a server to host a starlink only site would it have super low latency?

>>16063904
Imagine trying to sleep in the aft cabin with that thing shining in your window.

>>16063179
this is alot of jobs.
>would you eat here
>lol fuck no
>would you use their services
>are you dumb?
there's alot of shady shit that goes on in businesses that workers are aware of but that never gets out

>>16062836

>>16063912
It's also moar power for the ridiculous phaser lance under the saucer that rapes a Klingon battleship like an X-Ray Free Electron Laser rapes IRL armor materials.

Kek

https://x.com/faa_gov/status/1766260209264324676?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ

>>16063012
I just read it, it's one of the most gay bingos I've seen.
>free space not in center
and that makes it double gay

>>16063912
But Voyager establishes that Warp 10 is "going so fast you're basically in all points simultaneously until you stop", which people don't use because it makes you hyper-evolve into a salamander.

>>16063179
do you have this webm with sound?

>>16063940
Voyager doesn't count

>>16063931
>Kek
>
>https://x.com/faa_gov/status/1766260209264324676?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ
hmmmm

>>16063940
In the fake future they went back to the TOS scale which is different

>>16063955
What's the issue?

>>16062609
>Lastly she alleged SpaceX leadership paid her less than men with comparable jobs
Tell me more about these men whose jobs were to get pregnant and have an abortion.

>>16063940
Star Trek stops existing post DS9 and angry black captain

>>16063904
>>16063909
>>16063912
>>16063914
>>16063928
>>16063940
>>16063946
>>16063956
>>16063960

>>16063318
you have to get it up first

>>16063956
Oh right, Future Imperfect was just an alien kid's fanfic
>>16063960
But I like hologram Doctor

>>16063963
we need more youtubers and content made in space

chances of FTS exploding while they are installing it?

https://youtu.be/eMbCtcrcCzw
Japan time

>>16063968
something with a decimal followed by more zeros than you have fingers.

>>16063969
A half dozen nips screaming. Wonderful

>>16063971
haha yeah this launch stream is extremely Japanese, I have no idea what's going on
they appear to have two separate comedy duos onscreen right now telling two different jokes simultaneously

>>16063969
cute mascot.

>>16063966
I miss CostPlusContent

>>16063969
>>16063971
>>16063973
WHERE IS CLEAR???

>>16063961
Anyone who is still a "trekkie" after its gay "reboot" is sus af.
>STD

>>16063978
https://youtu.be/y0K0RkBt5cE

elon vs bezos mma fight on the iss

>>16063979
ENT was the sign-off the series deserved. It all should have ended there.

remember when tom cruise was going to the iss to film a movie?

>>16063914

>>16063984
The Russians filmed one up there, did that come out yet?

>>16063969
>>16063981
>no countdown clock
so is this a launch or just a PR event?
>>16063974
the mascot has a Toriyama style look to it
;_;

>>16063984
yes kek
>>16063983
ENT is awesome

>>16063991
>so is this a launch or just a PR event?
answering my own question, the launch time was just up, looks like it's about 35 mins away if I have the time zone right

>>16063969
IKEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>16063996
WE IKIMASU

>>16063984
I will never forgive the Chinese for denying the world of Cruise kino.

>>16063913
I'm expecting there to end up being a use case where some Wall Street financial company pays Starlink to host servers in LEO.

>>16063969
NO FUCKING WAY SHE'S ACTUALLY A GIRL???????

>>16064007
who

>>16063999

>>16064011
boomer trying to co-opt gen z memes to promote transphobia

>>16063988
No, it was just a PR thing

>>16064014
>promote transphobia
(which is based)

>>16064019
No, it really isn't.

>>16064024
KEEEEEK
dilate

>>16064014
This has to be bait

>>16063988
yeah last year. couldnt find a rip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Challenge_(2023_film)

>>16064030
>>16064028
we know that GOP shills want to try and convert Gen z/alpha to reactionary Chud ideologies.
we must clear out the fascists that have infiltrated the spaceflight community to achieve total trans rights victory!

>>16064028
>/pol/ gibberish
go back, election tourist

>>16063991
finally have the clock (T-15M)
this certainly isn't the usual dry JAXA event

>We will offer the world’s shortest lead time from contractual agreement to launch as well as the world’s most frequent launching schedule.”

why do companies always say this

>>16064030
>>16064019
>>16064028
fuck off m8

>>16064036
Its a nice launch location. Though trees surrounding a launch facility might be bad

>>16064035
weak bait
>>16064037
unironically mentally ill. YWNBAW

>>16064044
>promoting basic human rights is bait
do /pol/cels really?

>>16064044
>more /pol/ gibberish
go back, election tourist

>>16064047
Troons aren't human (ability to procreate)

>>16064049
this.

>>16064049
cope
we dominate the spaceflight industry and we will outlive you
:3

>>16064054
Given the cancer rates associated with long term cross-sex hormone usage not to mention the many traumatic surgeries they seek out. No!

>IFT-3 is testing cargo door, prop transfer, engine re-light
what is IFT-4 likely to test?

>>16064059
cargo door, prop transfer, engine re-light

A Japanese commercial rocket is about to have its maiden launch RIGHT NOW and /sci/ does not care???

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZeY957bWlU0?si=vboO93xUp30c3WAg

>>16064059
On orbit maneuvering. Deorbit burn.
Precision landing of the ship in the ocean.
For IFT-3 it doesn't do the flip and landing burn.

>DUDE RAMEN LMAO

>>16064067
small launchers have been disappointing

>>16064059
My patience

Japanese countdown is so kino

>>16064067

WHY DO NIPS DO SUCH LONG COUNTDOWNS?

KEEEEK

Heh

IT'S OVER!!!!

>>16063969
I tuned in and sit 21+T and not launched?

SCRUBU

>>16064074
um? did they forget the parking brake?

lmao what a disaster

Scrub

>>16063963
not once did my rocket greet me with energy

>Clear up to 6.6k
DORIYAAAAAAAAAA

Recycled the count, T-13 minutes 20 seconds and counting

Clock reset 13:40 minutes left

>>16064049
This is bait

>official stream lost 8k viewers already
ogre

>>16064074
https://youtu.be/AiosKUO7oqo?t=63
They count funny, I like it.

what are they screaming about

>press report
>10 min later
the fun's over faggot

>>16063961
>Toronto
Canadians ruin everything.
>>16064105
Godzilla

the numbers mason!

GOOOO JAPAN

>>16064106
LMAO ELON BANNED THE FAA

keeeeeeek
L JAP

This is so cringe!

Japanbros............

it's owari da

>>16064113
the actual accounts is FAAnews

parking brake was left on

おわりだ

load up another nuke, Japan is a disgrace

>>16064059
moon landing

I demand the entire engineering staff commit sudoku for this embarrassment

>>16064106
it was some furry fox space xwitter user or something

>>16063995
I was wrong again, looks like it's going to launch at the top of the hour. So 40 more minutes until UCHI AGEMASU

>everyone leaving
ogre

How many Ls can japanese space take?

on the plus side, we have more time to listen to Clear sing cute songs of encouragement

>all the people who gathered to see it launch leaving
feels bad man

>can't even get a SRB launch right

>>16064134
chinks posting Ws

bratty rocket. needs correction!

>>16064130
>>16064133
I hate this kind of atmosphere so much holy shit, the cringe announcements and talking on stage by the company before makes it even worse

>>16064132
i wish i can marry her

>>16064139
the company spent money on doing this rather than the engineering
space one confirmed black company

>>16064134
Wait, SRB? What was the problem, then? Any japs?

welp, I guess we'll have a solid-rocket race to see who is scheduled to relaunch first: KAIROS second attempt or Minotaur IV with an NROL spysat. (or maybe abl's 2nd attempt not to destroy their launch pad)

answer the door Clear. It's me

>>16064146
Some kind of igniter issue. Happened plenty of times when I was launching Estes rockets back in the day. There's not really much else that could have gone wrong with a solid fuel system.

>>16064158
4 little boosters really better than 2 big ones?

>>16064158
>550kg is enough to put someone in orbit with enough life support to stay there for a few hours

You really don't want to fly economy class to space

>>16064157
They forgot to insert the ignition key so the controller wouldn't make the electrical circuit

>>16064160
It's a lot cheaper to make, which is why Ariane 6 switched.

i would tbag clearchan

>>16064158
>tiny clear
Nice

I’m still in shock that clear ended up actually being a girl (female)

>>16064177
Same. But I wasnt surprised

スクラッブ スクラッブ スクラッブ

>>16064169
fat

>>16064177
Post her real face

>>16064177
about that...

>>16064177
Yeah but Hoshimi is more pleasant to listen to and has a less busy design

>>16064161
>mercury 1.4 tons 1 person
>gemini 3.2 tons 2 people
>soyuz 7 tons 3 people
>dragon 12 tons 4 people
>shuttle 78 tons 7 people

Anybody who likes anime is either Japanese, a pedophile, or both.

>>16064190